| temporizer | (n) someone who temporizes; someone who tries to gain time or who waits for a favorable time, Syn. temporiser |
| Temporizer | n. One who temporizes; one who yields to the time, or complies with the prevailing opinions, fashions, or occasions; a trimmer. [ 1913 Webster ] A sort of temporizers, ready to embrace and maintain all that is, or shall be, proposed, in hope of preferment. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ] |